Wiping out smallpox had an unintended consequence: the rise of mpox in the past few years. Here's the story — starting with ...

A viral disease now known as mpox has been spreading infecting people at increasingly higher rates. It causes fever, chills, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed the first mpox in vitro diagnostic (IVD) under its Emergency Use Listing (EUL) procedure, an important step in improving global access to mpox testing.

Research conducted by U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases scientists into a promising mpox vaccine ...

We’ve already brought a global outbreak of (mpox) under control in 2022." A top WHO official expressed similar sentiments in an Aug. 20 post on X. "Mpox is not the new COVID," regardless of ...

Speaking from the capital, Bujumbura, he said the rise of mpox among children under the age of 5 is of particular concern as they represent 30% of the reported cases. This, he said, underscores ...

also was made available for certain people with mpox under an expanded investigational drug protocol during the 2022 outbreak. Studies about how effective Tpoxx is in reducing severity of disease ...

If you get swabbed for flu in the District, that sample could end up at D.C.’s Public Health Lab inside the Consolidated ...

Mpox outbreaks in Africa can be brought under control, but governments, international agencies and others need to work together to get tests and vaccines to affected areas, the head of the World ...

Matt Binnicker is the CSO for Mayo Collaborative Services. Due to the alarming surge in cases of mpox (formerly referred to as monkeypox), the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Youngsters have been especially impacted by mpox outbreaks raging in Africa, with children under five accounting for nearly a third of the cases in Burundi, the UN children's agency said Friday.

Congo health officials have confirmed more than 22,000 mpox cases in the country and more than 716 deaths from the disease this year. But experts believe very low testing rates and under-reporting ...